Hi. I am trying to get a computer to work. It would seem that the computer became infected with numerous different spyware applications. I used ad-aware to remove the spyware, but their is still some issues that remain. When I try to go to http://google.com, I get an error message. It can't access google, it would seem that some program has managed to redirect traffic to google from my computer to some unknown site. I check the hosts file for an entry pertaining to google. But I didn't find one. Why is google not working? What other program might be hijacking IE. Q2. Internet Explorer Toolbars. Where in the windows registry do I have to go to get rid of these annoying toolbars that manage to get onto my computer. Thanks David

Try posting your probem on the Security and Virus forum. Better results there. Note: change the text of your message, this site does not support duplicate posts on different forums, give it the same gist. hth shep

This should help. It' freeware: Browser Hijack Blaster: http://www.wilderssecurity.net/bhblaster.html Same people make SpyWare Blaster http://www.wilderssecurity.net/spywareguard.html I run Spybot, Zone Alarm, and Spyware Blaster http://www.zonelabs.com http://www.safer-networking.org/ There all free. Also XP Has it's own firewall. Right click My Network Places, click properties, Right click your each of your connections, click properties, click the "advanced" tab, then click enable Firewall. That should do it.

Same thing happened to me. Make a long story short, look for a nasty little file in Windows/help/host and delete it. Had same problem, two months of spare houndogging and I found it. Microsoft Security no help. After deleting this file my browsers work better than ever, so does all my stop pop up software. Drove me nuts. Good Luck.